Ordinance 1960-22 -- GAS ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING NORTHERN ILLINOIS GAS
COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, TO CONSTRUCT,
OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A GAS DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM IN
AND THROUGH THE UNITED CITY OF THE VILLAGE OF
YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED CITY OF
THE VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1. That the right, permission and authority be and
the same are hereby granted to NORTHERN ILLINOIS GAS COMPANY, an
Illinois corporation, its successors and assigns, (hereinafter
referred to as the "Grantee" ), to construct, operate and maintain in
and through THE UNITED CITY OF THE VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE, (hereinafter
referred to as the "Municipality" ), in the State of Illinois, for a
term of Fifty (50) years, a system for the production, distribution
and sale of gas for fuel, heating, processing and other purposes
within and outside the corporate limits of the Municipality, and to
construct, lay, maintain and operate such gas pipes, mains,
conductors and other devices, apparatus and equipment as may be
necessary or convenient for such system in, under, along and across
each and all of the streets, alleys, avenues and other public places
in the Municipality, subject to the conditions and regulations
hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. All pipes, mains, conductors and other
appliances, including connections with service pipes, hereafter laid
in streets, alleys, avenues or other public places, shall be laid
under the supervision of the Committee on Streets and Alleys of the
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Municipality, or such other duly authorized agent of the Municipality
as the City Council may frora time to time designate. All pipes,
mains, conductors and other appliances shall be so located as not to
injure unnecessarily any drains, sewers, catch basins, water pipes:
pavements or other like public improvements, but should any drain}
sewer, catch basin, water pipe, pavement or other like public
improvement be injured by such location, the Grantee shall forthwith
repair the damage caused by such injury to the satisfaction of the
Committee on Streets and Alleys, or such other duly authorized agent,
as the case may be, and in default thereof the Municipality may
repair such damage and charge the cost thereof to , and collect the
same from, the Grantee. The Grantee shall be subject to all
reasonable regulations which may now or hereafter be prescribed by
general ordinance of the Municipality with respect to the use of the
public streets, alleys, avenues and other public places of the
Municipality.
SECTION 3. The Grantee shall indemnify, become responsible
for and forever save harmless the Municipality from any and all
judgments, damages, decrees, costs and expenses, including attorneys'
fees, which the Municipality may legally suffer or incur, or which
may be legally obtained against the Municipality, for or by reason of
the use and occupation of any street, alley, avenue or other public
place in the Municipality by the Grantee pursuant to the terms of
this ordinance or legally resulting from the exercise by the Grantee
of any of the privileges herein granted, and as additional security
therefor the Grantee shall, during the life of this ordinance, keep
on file with the City Clerk of the Municipality a good and sufficient
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bond in the penal sum of Five Thousand Dollars 05,000) , conditioned
to protect and indemnify the Municipality as in this section
provided, and said bond shall be subject to the approval of the City
Council of the Municipality, and the Municipality shall have the
right from time to time, whenever in the opinion of said City Council
the same may be necessary, to require the Grantee to renew or provide
additional or other security on said bond*
SECTION 4* After the passage of this ordinance, and within
thirty (30) days after passage, this ordinance, if accepted, shall be
accepted by the Grantee by its filing with the City Clerk of the
Municipality an unconditional written acceptance hereof, to be duly
executed according to law, and a failure of the Grantee to so accept
this ordinance within said period of time shall be deemed a rejection
hereof by the Grantee, and the rights and privileges herein granted
shall after the expiration of said period of thirty (30) days, if not
so accepted, absolutely cease and determine, unless said period of
time shall be extended by the Municipality by ordinance duly passed
for that purpose and before the expiration of said period of thirty
(30) days*
SECTION 5* All provisions of this ordinance which are
obligatory upon, or which inure to the benefit of, said Northern
Illinois Gas Company shall also be obligatory upon and shall inure to
the benefit of any and all successors and assigns of said Company,
and the word "Grantee" wherever appearing in this ordinance shall
include and be taken to mean not only said Northern Illinois Gas
Company, but also each and all of such successors and assigns.
SECTION 6. This ordinance, if accepted by the Grantee as
hereinabove provided, shall be in full force and effect on and after
1960, and from and after the effective date
shall supersede, cancel, repeal and be in lieu of any and all other
existing or prior grants of right, permission and authority to said
Grantee or any predecessor companies or assignors of the Grantee to
construct, operate and maintain any system for the productions
distribution and sale of gas for fuels heating, processing and other
purposes within and outside the corporate limits of this Municipalitys
including the boroughs thereof, and this ordinance shall likewise
cancel all of the obligations under said existing or prior grants.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED CITY OF THE
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VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS, THIS -/ DAY OF s
A.D. 1960* o A phi I
City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR OF THE UNITED CITY OF THE VILLAGE OF
YORKVILLE ILLINOIS THIS DAY OF ! ' , A.D. 1960,
Mayor
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
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COUNTY OF KENDALL ) SS.
UNITED CITY OF THE VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE )
I, Wayne C. Larson , City Clerk of
The United City of the Village of Yorkville, Illinois, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an
Ordinance duly passed by the City Council of said City on the
21st day of April , A.D. 1960, and duly approved by
the Mayor of said City on the 21st day of April ,
A.D. 1960, the original of which Ordinance is now on file in my
office.
I do further certify that I am the legal custodian of
all papers, contracts, documents and records of said City.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this
21st day of April , A.D. 1960.
City Clerk
Yorkville, Illinois
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